France launches air strikes against Islamic supremacists in Mali

The pro-Sharia forces in Mali need not worry. A few casualties, a few hostages, a few corpses dragged through the streets, and the French will go away, and Sharia will prevail. "France launches air strikes in Mali against Islamist rebels," by Elizabeth Pineau and Bate Felix for Reuters, January 11 (thanks to all who sent this in):

(Reuters) - France carried out air strikes against Islamist rebels in Mali on Friday as it began a military intervention intended to halt a drive southward by the militants who control the country's desert north.

Western governments, particularly former colonial power France, voiced alarm after the al Qaeda-linked rebel alliance captured the central Malian town of Konna on Thursday, a gateway towards the capital Bamako 600 km (375 miles) further south.

President Francois Hollande said France would not stand by to watch the rebels push southward. Paris, the leading advocate for foreign intervention in Mali, has repeatedly warned that Islamists' seizure of the country's north in April gave them a base to attack the West.

"We are faced with blatant aggression that is threatening Mali's very existence. France cannot accept this," Hollande said in a New Year speech to diplomats and journalists....

Asked whether the rebels intended to press ahead to capture Sevare and Mopti, the Ansar Dine spokesman, Sanda Ould Boumama, said: "We will make that clear in the coming days." He said French intervention was evidence of an anti-Islam bias....

Of course! What else could it be?

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Tactical strikes mean next to nothing if strategic thinking remains amiss.

Supplementary report, 'France 24':-


"France joins fight against Mali Islamists, Hollande says."


http://www.france24.com/en/20130111-france-hollande-prepared-intervene-mali-islamists-un-military-au?autoplay=1


I recommend using the Ka'baa for weapons system calibration and target practice.

Nice one.

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

And doesn't that sum up the whole of the "war on terror?"

I agree. Destroy it.

Shouldn't they be doing an air-strike on Malmo?

The Vikings there will take care of all that eventually. No need to waste airborne ordnance.

Don't worry, Ould man, France supports the Palestinians.
And in a couple more generations, it'll be called Francestan.

The same barbarians reside all over France.

The French have a big job recovering their mission of civilization.

The world needs France to take up the challenge. The barbarians have a choice to make: civilization, pluralism and liberal democracy or misogynistic,supremacist, totalitarian Islam.

The US cannot do it all alone.

Islam delenda est.

"Western governments, particularly former colonial power France, voiced alarm after the al Qaeda-linked rebel alliance captured the central Malian town of Konna on Thursday, a gateway towards the capital Bamako 600 km (375 miles) further south."

Little did they know (and shame on them for this) that the name "al Qaeda" is just another name for Islam - which also includes a whole list of other names...such as hezbollah, hamas, and so on. It's all Islam.

The tree is known by its fruit. If that tree (koran) sends out suicide bombers..then that is what it is. If that tree sends out murderers - then that is what it is.

And it doesn't take a team of scholars to figure out these facts....to the shame of the 'intelligence' that came up with the name "al Qaeda" which is just another euphemism for the name - Islam.

He ( sanda ould boumama ) "said French intervention was evidence of an anti-
Islam bias"....


What utter nonsense, what rubbish.

Its statements like these that triggers all muslims into Jihad (holy war) to fight the infidels. These guys have a plan, they know their sheep and they know the right strings to pull. I'll advice the french military to thread carefully and not be too much in a haste.

Air strikes against terrorist militants is like using a shot gun to kill a fly. This has been in effective for the last 14 years. Taliban and al-Qaida simply hide behind civilians making the mission negative in result.

The big five should know at least that much about this enemy of freedom.

"France's move into Mali follows push south by jihadist fighters.

"Paris and UK warn their citizens to leave country following rebels' capture of village that had been held by Malian army."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/11/france-move-mali-jihadist-fighters

'France 24' report (inc video clips):-

"Islamists warn France over Mali military operation"


http://www.france24.com/en/20130112-islamist-militants-warn-france-mali-military-operation

...the Ansar Dine spokesman, Sanda Ould Boumama, said: "We will make that clear in the coming days." He said French intervention was evidence of an anti-Islam bias....

Boumama, Obama...

This is good. Maybe Obama will declare war against France -- just as his ideological predecessor did in 1940. That should hasten the protracted train wreck of the Myopic Cycloptic West that apparently won't be prevented except by getting on with it, already.

More news from the useful site France24 (follow the links at the bottom of the story Spencer linked to related stories) --

France has eight nationals in Islamist hands in the Sahara after a string of kidnappings.

The families of the hostages said they feared for their loved ones. Jean-Pierre Verdon, father of a hostage, told France24: “We are petrified. Actions are being taken very fast and the situation is extremely intense. We are sitting in front of the TV all the time.”

...

The Islamist rebels -- a coalition of three groups including Ansar Dine, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, and the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO -- have been implementing a strict version of Islamic law in the north, carrying out public executions, amputations and whippings.

The Islamists are carving out their own country in northern Mali and making it a center for extremism, threatening neighboring countries, according to security experts.

...

Now, can readers detect a "disconnect" between the following two pieces of information (from other reports from France24:

1)
Since April the Islamist rebels have occupied the vast desert of northern Mali, an area the size of France. The Islamists took advantage of a power vacuum in Mali following a March coup that overthrew the democratically elected president.

2)
More than two decades of peaceful elections had earned Mali a reputation as a bulwark of democracy in a part of Africa better known for turmoil - an image that unravelled in a matter of weeks after a military coup last March that paved the way for the Islamist rebellion.

A country can't be that sociopolitically healthy if it "unravels" in a military coup. And now the White Western Daddy and Mommy has to go in and help these African children.

Gao lawmaker Abdou Sidibe blamed the amputations on the "international community's laxness", saying its hesitation over whether to intervene to reconquer Mali's north was making Islamists feel invincible.

See? The Malians are blaming the West (the "international community") for their own country falling apart from their own internal disease of Islam.

Why do we hold black Africans (and other Third Worlders) to such a lower standard? Either we should reinstate Western Colonialism and stop pretending we aren't still superior to them and need to parent them; or we should expect -- and demand -- that they behave in healthier ways. But of course, we should know that there is no real choice here; there never was. Western Colonialism is the only way to manage the world. And when it comes to management, since when is doing it in a grandly half-assed way (as we have been doing ever since we dismantled Western Colonialism following World War 2) better than doing it right?

I wonder if France got Rasool Obama's permission first? No one is allowed to make any sudden moves without his blessings...

Jahilliya Watch

And from another France24 report from just a couple of weeks ago, about the deteriorating situation (it's been deteriorating since the Muslims penetrated sub-Saharan Africa in earnest a thousand years ago, after the 11th century A.D., after they had already ravaged, raped and ruined North Africa for centuries):

Islamists in Timbuktu renewed efforts to destroy the historic city’s remaining mausoleums on Sunday..

Armed groups occupying Timbuktu in northern Mali used pickaxes on Sunday to smash up any remaining mausoleums in the ancient city, an Islamist leader said.

...

"Not a single mausoleum will remain in Timbuktu, Allah doesn't like it," Ansar Dine leader Abou Dardar told AFP. "We are in the process of smashing all the hidden mausoleums in the area."

...

Anything that doesn't fall under Islam "is not good. Man should only worship Allah," Mohamed Alfoul said of the mausoleums, which the armed Islamists consider blasphemous.

The vandalism of the Muslim saints' tombs in the UNESCO World Heritage site came a day after other Islamists in the northern city of Gao announced they had amputated two people's hands.

...

In July, Islamists destroyed the entrance to a 15th-century mosque in Timbuktu, the so-called "City of 333 Saints."

"The Islamists are currently in the process of destroying all the mausoleums in the area with pickaxes," one witness said.

"I saw Islamists get out of a car near the historic mosque of Timbuktu. They smashed a mausoleum behind a house shouting 'Allah is great, Allah is great'," another resident told AFP.

Not only present in cemeteries and mosques, the revered mausoleums are also found in alleyways and private residences in the city, an ancient centre of learning and desert crossroads.

Ansar Dine first began destroying the cultural treasures in July.

The International Criminal Court warned their vandalism was a war crime, but the Islamists followed up with more damage in October, when they smashed several Muslim saints' tombs, prompting another international outcry.

And in other news, 12,000 cars in Paris spontaneously burst into flame today. Authorities suspect this poorly understood phenomena is in some way connected to Angry Asian Teens...

France has already been invaded, why bother?

In the meantime we Brits studiously ignore the islamic horror invading our former colonies - Nigeria and Kenya for example - but waste lives supporting the US in an unwinnable war in Afghanistan. Another Vietnam. Silly really since we, unlike the US, have sad history in Afganistan and even the then powerful USSR failed. Hats off to the French.

Looks like the Mali Jihadis didn't connect w/ their comrades in the Muslim Brotherhood or OIC to set up a link to Obama, recognizing them in the same way that he recognizes Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah. Had they done that, there would have been no foreign action against them.

Again, where are the Leftists who opposed US intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq (for the wrong reasons)? Why aren't they protesting French intervention in Mali? Extend the Arab spring experiment to Mali, let them have elections, and if they elect the Jihadis, like they did in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait and elsewhere, hand over the country to them. I mean, what damage could they do taking over Mali that they haven't already done taking over Egypt?

Couldn't agree more.......but I always add to such sentiments that it's past time for us Americans to be contributing mountains of materiel and brigades and divisions of our youth along with the now too casually expected and accepted bales upon bales of United States Green Dollars......for what....except the resultant ant-Americanism.

The mercurial Karzai is in Washington now. I hope he has acute acid indigestion. He apparently arrived with a list of complaints...complaints.

And, better for the French to be intimately and physically involved in their former colonial areas than Americans in our helicopters and ground support units which inevitably are expected to be expanded along with ever more bales of our ever-green cash.

This American wants us, all of us Americans, out of Central/West Asia as soon as the aircraft can be loaded with the dismantled and movable physical assets of potential use to indigenous "allies".

Vacuums be damned. We foreign devil-infidels have nothing of value to add to Africa or British/French Asia.

Let's apply a soviet-era quarantine around Central/West Asia. That Sino-Russian land mass was much much greater. The Russians collapsed from within. The Chinese became arrant Capitalists.

Our involvement with the French in Asia started with DienBienPhu when American aircrews in American made aircraft with French roundels airdropped supplies.

[cf: Civil Air Transport and also Air-America.org

Enough is enough.

From the article you quoted -

"Paris and UK warn their citizens to leave country following rebels' capture of village that had been held by Malian army."

Actually, what Paris and the UK should be doing is warning *Muslims* in the UK and France to leave the UK and France...(especially in light of the fact that the Ansar al Dine Mohammedthugs have openly declared Open Season upon any French person currently within dar al Islam...).

Here's what Hugh Fitzgerald, formerly of this site, had to say just now on the subject:

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/45625

Saturday, 12 January 2013
French All Over The Muslim Lands Now Threatened

"And if a hair on the head of one of those people should be touched,

"then as an obvious act of retaliation,

"and also as the most obvious form of self-defense,

"the French should start expelling Muslims from the French lands -- that is, from France...".

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